All my life, I have felt destiny tugging at my sleeve.~ Thursday NextI don't want to "go with the flow". The flow just washes you down the drain. I want to fight the flow.- Henry RollinsAll this spiritual talk is great and everything...but at the end of the day, there's nothing like a pair of skinny jeans. - Jillian Michaels

All my life, I have felt destiny tugging at my sleeve.~ Thursday NextI don't want to "go with the flow". The flow just washes you down the drain. I want to fight the flow.- Henry RollinsAll this spiritual talk is great and everything...but at the end of the day, there's nothing like a pair of skinny jeans. - Jillian Michaels

Why do you think that they use the guy in the wheelchair as the narrator? Is it because he is less threatening and the audience might empathize with him more?

I think its just a way for the show's writers to be creative and symbolic. To have him open and close every episode and set the tone with one of his poems or a stream of consciousness - rather than just jump right into the script.

The same thing was done with "Northern Exposure" where the local, moody, poet laurette DJ would open and close each episode with a little monoloug to his radio listeners - which was really meant for the viewers benefit.

The "Wonder Years" also had it with Arnold's voiceovers.

Basically its a really neat and symbolic way to start each show by saying "OK, here is what tonights episode is about..." and then to end each episode by saying "This is what you should have taken away from tonights episode if I did my job well"

I think it was because his charecter was a writer/poet. So he seemed to be the natural choice as narrator - we were seeing OZ through his eyes just as we were seeing teenage life in the early 1970's through Arnold's eyes and we were seeing the daily life in Sicily Alaska through the DJ's eyes and rememberences.